Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Retirement? Reading scripts, Muni grades them like a schoolteacher, awarding "A1" to those scenes which have good dramatic values and also fit him perfectly. His contract allows him to reject any role he does not like. He rejects four out of five. What his next part will be is not known. With the completion of Zola, Muni began a long vacation. In October he and his wife will start on a trip round the world, avoiding war zones. During shooting of Zola, Muni gave several intimations that Zola's epitaph in the film might mark his own permanent farewell...
...hope by a recess appointment to seat a man on the bench whom the Senate might not otherwise readily approve, trusting that the Senate would not care to reject the new Justice next January after he had already served through the fall term...
...Senate did reject a recess appointee would any decisions which he took part in on the bench, prior to rejection, be legal...
...familiar with the "glided dogman" which passes as counterfeit coin for real aesthetic criticism. We can readily identify the same type of spurious currency stamped with social and political symbols rapidly passed about from hand to hand by the inhabitants of each conforming world. But if we are to reject this false metal we must be prepared each one of us to mint our own--we must be prepared to make our own judgments of the most intricate and complex situations. To do this with any degree of success requires, indeed, "a rich background and a disciplined insight...
...Fitzgerald had left Hollywood for San Francisco under the impression that his job was done, striking painters repudiated the settlement, voted 640 to 276 to hold out for F. M. P. C. jurisdiction over hairdressers and make-up men. Next day, the hairdressers and make-up men voted to reject the terms agreed to by their officers, refused membership in the I. A. T. S. E., which has a five-year non-strike agreement with producers. Deadlocked again but now minus a conciliator, F. M. P. C. members put on their pith helmets, went back to picketing along Hollywood...